And lack of pressure. Forge has done such a good job and the community has gotten so comfortable with it, building an official one that is better enough to bring people over is both a tall order and a low demand.

Is anybody coming out with one that don't run on fricking Java? Because for a decade we retailers saw Java disappear until this damned thing came out and WHAM, suddenly we are seeing Java infections again.

Friends don't let friends use Java for consumer software, server and enterprise is a different story, but Java on the desktop? Gets more viruses than a Bangkok whore on coupon day.

I play Minetest occasionally on Linux, and I have a bunch of mods loaded. So I use a for loop to look for.git directories, cd to their parent, and pull. Then at the end I pull the source and run a make. It's not written in Java. Multiplayer support blows though.

A locally installed application is doing whatever it pleases, be it java or c++.It's just a matter of trust and wishful thinking that it won't wipe your harddiskor send every file to the Russian mafia.

There is a sandbox built into java which is used for applets and java-webstart apps,which is why you can run applets supposedly without risk. (Unlike ActiveX plugins, which is in the wishful thinking category)

Except the Java sandbox has shown itself as trivial as a child's sandbox to get out off, which is why everybody talks about "herpa derp disable browser plug in"...well if security on Java and its sandbox wasn't such shit we wouldn't NEED to disable the fricking plug in, now would we?

The simple fact is its too damned easy to call Java whether you have the plug in or not and its security is so shit that its a major weakness in any desktop. I mean most don't have Adobe Reader plugged into their browser yet h

And many many bug fixes too, including one I really liked that could be used to make turbo-firing dispensers in a tiny space. I used that for potions and eggs.

There was some interesting ones removed that I hope they actually add in as effects, such as some curious mixture of potion effects that effectively flips your screen on the horizontal. (and controls)That would make for a fantastic effect. That plus a double reverse potion (cure) would be pretty interesting if also combined with the beacons.You could create an area effect around your base that flips every other players controls and your team use the de-flip potion.Would be a great defensive use of Beacons, which are its main use from what I have seen on several huge faction servers.Another was also one that flipped on the vertical two.They really should heavily expand the potion system and allow for negation potions to disable potential effects getting applied to you.

I have heard the next update is supposed to be another biomes update.I sure hope so, SO MANY biomes were removed in a recent update, that was annoying.To be honest, seed generation should be based around peaks and depths, with biomes placed around them in a normal realistic sense.It still annoys the hell out of me to see a snowy biome separated by a river, and then a damn desert next to it.Then temperature can actually be made better use of, instead of just a very simple use that it is now.And fix weather as well. Weather is still terrible. Weather is still global, it needs to be seed + biome based.

The problem is that you have to have a computer that can handle your view distance^3 blocks simultaneously. Lets say you can see 1000 blocks away (500 in both directions), that's a trillion blocks. They have a system that kinda shortchanges your height (you don't miss it anyways) and loads the terrain in blocks, but the way that the game functions has some limitations that even the coolest tomfoolery doesn't alleviate.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! It's java! Java is teh suxors! It would get a bajillion frames per microsecond if they just wrote in pure machine code!

Sorry, the Java is slow meme has gotten way too old and posts like yours shouldn't be necessary. Voxels are not as simple as people think they are. There's way more vertices, surfaces, and triangles in a simple voxel landscape than in a typical mesh landscape, primarily because voxels also have depth while a mesh is just just the surface. You basicall

They actually refactored the code awhile ago, and are refactoring it currently in order to merge the single and multi-player sides to the code base. The game definitely runs better than it used to, though they're using each performance gain to pay for new features, such as smooth lighting. Thankfully, many of those features can be disabled, and doing so should leave you with a game that performs better than it once did.

The soundtrack was released over two years ago [bandcamp.com]. You can pick it up for $4 now. Most of the tracks it features are only heard in-game if you collect records (which drop from creepers when they're killed by skeletons) and play them in a jukebox.

Not only that, Mincraft has terrible memory and performance issues. I'm really surprised they haven't spent some of their vast money mountain to get it a lot more efficient, even if it means replacing some of the calc intensive java stuff with something offering better throughput, like interpreted BASIC on an 8 bit micro.

Maybe you'll want to look at Minetest [minetest.net] instead?
Granted it's not as polished as Minecraft yet but; it's open source, the engine is written in C++ and the gameplay logic is written in Lua.

I plan to contribute something to the project once I find some free time on my hands.

When you install Java, the browser plug-in gets installed automatically. I'm not sure, but I think it gets reinstalled whenever you update Java. I know Java Quick Starter keeps getting turned back on whenever I update Java.

The good news is my 9 year old loves Minecraft, and I like how it encourages his creativity and isn't all about violence.

The bad news? Its a Java app, which is the last thing I want on any of my Macs. Not to mention that adding mods is a total pain in the ass. It's like they built an app specifically to screw with parents and make their computers vulnerable. Thanks...

It's got nothing to do with porn sites. The sites where you have to go to get mods are a bitch and deliberately try to trick you into clicking on false downloads and the ads often trigger virus alerts because they know everyone that goes there has Java.

There is a bug report that was filed that attempted to address this very issue. Sadly, it isn't even remotely something that Mojang seems interested in doing... at least so far as something that mod developers could actively participate in using:

I would love to see Mojang offering a direct plug-in service for mod developers that could even include a payment stream like the Apple app store. I wouldn't personally mind Mojang getting a cut of anything I wrote if t

Oh how I feel this pain.Every time I'm asked to install a mod for my daughter I swear it will be the last time.But it isn't.The tears of your child are corrosive in nature and work their way through the thickest veneer, finding their way into your heart one way or another. So inflicted, we return again and again to that which hurts us.Powerless to those tears.

Use a launcher. But for what it's worth, the official OS X launcher has never worked for me. So I use a shell script to run the Linux launcher. I used to have a lot of problems running Minecraft until I did this. Create a text file named "mc" with the following and do what the comments say.

#!/bin/sh
# Minecraft startup for OS X
# download Minecraft.jar for Linux and put this in the same folder with it
# chmod +x this script and drag it into the document side of your Dock
cd "`dirname "$0"`"
java -Xmx1024M -Xms512M -cp Minecraft.jar net.minecraft.LauncherFrame >/dev/null 2>/dev/null &

Is Redstone fun? Redstone always seemed very wierd in minecraft. Minecraft is all about simple things. Then you have Redstone with its wierd rules. You can't just pickup and use Redstone. Look at this stupid chart: http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Redstone_Circuits/LogicIt feels very tedious compared to circuits in say little big planet 2.

Yes, you can just pickup redstone and use it for ordinary things like turning on power for a rail or ringing a doorbell. Where it gets complicated is trying to figure out digital logic based off of nor circuits.

That silly chart is really just how to make "compact" circuits based off of that same logic. This latest update adds an additional layer of complexity as now you can send "numeric" values through redstone circuits and not just ones and zeros. The old circuits still work pretty much as they used to

I'm not familiar with the Little Big Planet series, but if you don't care for the complexities of Redstone circuits, might I suggest trying RedPower? It's a great little mod that I use for my item sortation, but they also have much simpler to use variants of the base Redstone circuits.

Don't wanna fool around installing mods by hand? Try Feed The Beast (most options in their launcher have RedPower IIRC) or Technic/Tekkit (ditto).

And yet it was released with a bug of white pixels between textures in dark areas on some video cards, which their error reporting site has marked as "fixed." It also has a very sporadic framerate from the "improved" lighting engine, even though the biggest lighting glitch (the dark spots) still exists in full force. Not to mention, they buffed skeletons to be way more annoying, to the point that they shoot so fast you can't get out of the water to kill them, yet nerfed bonemeal to need multiple pieces to